Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me.